Spoon-billed Sandpiper
Calidris pygmaea(Linnaeus, C, 1758)
English (US) Spoon-billed Sandpiper
The Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Scolopacidae (Sandpipers and Allies) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: breeds coastal tundra of eastern Chukotskiy Peninsula to northern Kamchatka (norhteastern Russia); winters coastal mudflats from Taiwan and east-central China to Bangladesh; mainly Thailand, Myanmar, and Bangladesh; rare and localRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Calidris pygmaea
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Critically Endangered
- English (US)
- Spoon-billed Sandpiper
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1758)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Platalea pygmea
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1758)
- Type locality
- Surinam, error = eastern Asia.
- Original description
- Systema Naturæ per Regna Tria Naturæ, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata 1 p.140
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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